Azure Penetration Testing
NetSPI’s Azure penetration testing identifies cloud configuration and other security issues on your Azure infrastructure and provides actionable recommendations to improve your Azure cloud security posture.
Microsoft Azure Pentesting
Secure Your Azure Cloud Infrastructure with NetSPI
NetSPI combines elite security experts with purpose-built automation to discover, prioritize, and remediate the most critical vulnerabilities in your Azure environment. Whether you are migrating to Azure, developing cloud-native applications in Azure, using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or pentesting Azure for compliance, partnering with NetSPI for testing your Microsoft Azure infrastructure helps ensure a secure cloud instance.
Multi-Perspective Azure Cloud Penetration Testing
Azure penetration testing from both anonymous external and authenticated internal perspectives.
Azure Cloud Pentesting Capabilities
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Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Exploitation of your Azure Identity & Access Management (IAM) configurations. NetSPI simulates real-world attacks against Managed Identities and Service Principals, identifying where excessive permissions allow for rapid privilege escalation from “Reader” role to “Subscription Owner” to access sensitive functionality or data.
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Azure Container & Orchestration Security
Security reviews of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Container Registries (ACR), specifically targeting credential extraction from configuration files, image metadata, and more.
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Azure Automation & Hybrid Worker Abuse
Our experience includes identifying misconfigurations in Automation Accounts, such as the exposure of “Run As” certificates and the hijacking of API connections to pivot to other Azure resources.
Azure Cloud Config Review
Our expert Azure penetration testers evaluate the configurations of your Azure services, and the Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies applied to those services. Misconfigurations can lead to significant security gaps in Azure environments.
External Azure Pentesting
External Azure vulnerability scanning tools and manual security testing probes your Azure infrastructure to uncover security issues in public-facing services. These issues include web and network-related security.
Internal Azure Pentesting
Internal network layer penetration testing of virtual machines and services enables NetSPI to emulate an attacker that has gained a foothold on your Azure virtual network.
What Does NetSPI Test?
Our Azure penetration testing includes a cloud services configuration review and external and internal penetration testing techniques, such as:
- System and services discovery
- Automated vulnerability scanning
- Manual verification of vulnerabilities
- Manual web application pentesting
- Manual network protocol attacks
- Manual dictionary attacks
- Network pivoting
- Domain privilege escalation
- Access sensitive data and critical systems
Featured Resources
We Know What You Did (in Azure) Last Summer
At DEF CON 33, NetSPI presented a talk about how Azure resources supporting Entra ID authentication expose tenant IDs, enabling attackers to attribute cloud resources to specific organizations at scale.
Backdooring Azure Automation Account Packages and Runtime EnvironmentsÂ
Azure Automation Accounts can allow an attacker to persist in the associated packages that support runbooks. Learn how attackers can maintain access to an Automation Account.
A Beginners Guide to Gathering Azure Passwords
Get started with Azure password gathering using Get-AzPasswords with this easy-to-follow guide for beginners. Find out about Contributor IAM rights and more.
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